Lectures and Events AY 2007-2008 April 23, 2008
Lunch with Dr. Valdimir Socor, Senior Fellow and Senior Analyst, Jamestown Foundation
“Russia and NATO After the Bucharest Summit” April 2, 2008
Lunch with Toby T. Gati, Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs, National Security Council; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; Senior International Adviser, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP . “How to Do Business in Russia?” March 28, 2008
Lunch with Thomas Graham, Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs at the National Security Council; Senior Director at the Kissinger Associates. “Is Russia Entering the Post-Putin Era? Fresh Impressions of Russia after the Elections” February 20, 2008
Brown bag lunch with Dr.Leon Aron, Director of Russian Studies, American Enterprise Institute. “The Credos of Glasnost. Ideals and Ideas that Shaped the 1987-1991 Russian Revolution” February 6, 2008
Lunch with Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State. “Russian Energy as a Foreign Policy Tool” January 23, 2008
Lunch with Tibor Navracsics, Head of Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union Parliamentary Group. “Russian Energy and Central Europe” November 14, 2007
Brown bag lunch with Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. “Current Challenges to Democratization in the OSCE Region: Election Observation and Its Enemies” November 7, 2007
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Nikolay Petrov, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Moscow Center, Co-chairman of programs on society and regions; on internal politics and political institutions; and on civil society. “Pre-election Struggles among Russia’s Siloviki". (The word “siloviki” is derived from the phrase silovye struktury (force structures), a reference to the armed services, law enforcement bodies, and intelligence agencies that wield the coercive power of the state. In literal usage, a silovik (plural: siloviki) is a current or former official from any of these government bodies) October 10, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Murray Feshbach, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Professor, Georgetown University. “Can Russia Avoid a Road to Death? Contemporary Issues of Russian Health, Demography and the Military” September 26, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Angela Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. “Russia and the West: A New Cold War?” September 17, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Mark Kramer, Director of the Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University, Senior Fellow at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. “Islam and Separatism in Russia: Old and New Challenges in the North Caucasus” September 12, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Peter Reddaway, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University. “Can the Kremlin Control the Election Cycle? The Politics of the Upcoming Elections for the Duma and the Presidency Lectures and Events AY 2006-2007 April 23, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director of the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. What Does Russia Want? Examining Moscow’s Foreign Policy ”Software” April 18, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Nikolay Petrov, Co-chairman of programs on society and regions; on internal politics and political institutions; and on civil society at the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Substitutions vs Institutions in Putin’s Russia" March 28, 2007
Brown bag lunch with SAIS alumni: Annaliis Canty, Defense Intelligence Agency; Alexander Kliment, Eurasia Group; Paul Poletes, U.S. Department of State. “Life after SAIS” March 12, 2007
Freedom House and the Russian and Eurasian Studies Program. The Honorable Alcee Hastings, Chairman Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission); Dr. Douglas Menarchik, Assistant Administrator, Policy and Program Coordination & Acting Assistant Administrator, Europe and Eurasia, USAID. “Russia and Central Asia: The Growing Policy Challenges for the International Community”March 7, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Tatiana Shakleina, Chair of the Department of Foreign Policy Studies Institute of the USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences. “Russia's Revival and Russian-American Relations: A New Cold War?” February 21, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Robert Orttung, Project Director and Associate Research Professor, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, American University. “Russian Business Power and Russian Foreign Relations” January 10, 2007
The Washington Group and Russia-Eurasia Forum. Dr. Roman Popadiuk, Deputy White House Spokesman in 1991 and the First United States Ambassador to Ukraine. "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Emergence of an Independent Ukraine: A View from the White House" November 1, 2006
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Volodymyr Dubovyk, Fulbright Scholar, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, and Director, Center for International Studies, Odesa I. Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine. "Ukraine: Recent Political Developments and their Impact on Foreign Policy."September 20, 2006
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Dr. Nikolay Petrov, Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The Rise of Xenophobia in Putin’s Russia” Lectures and Events 2005-2006 March 16, 2006
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Masha Lipman, Editor of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Pro et Contra Journal and Op-Ed Columnist for the Washington Post
"Putin's Civil Society Project" March 8, 2006
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Wayne E. Merry, Senior Associate, American Foreign Policy Council
"An Empire in Decline, An Empire on the Climb: What the Changing Great Power Roles of Russia and China in Asia Mean for Their Neighbors, and for the United States" February 22, 2006
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Mark N. Katz, Professor of Government and Politics, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University
“Russian-Venezuelan Relations under Putin and Chavez” February 8, 2006
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Ambassador Keith Smith, Senior Associate, Europe Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
"Risks to Europe and the U.S. of Russia's Energy Policies" November 30, 2005
Speaker: Andrei Piontkovsky, Russian Analyst, Center for Strategic Research, Moscow
“The Scythian Complex of Russian Foreign Policy” November 16, 2005
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Celeste Wallander, Director, Russia and Eurasia program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
“Russia's Ambition as a Global Power: A Fascinating but Flawed Foreign Policy Strategy” November 2, 2005
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Michael Svetlik, Regional Director for Europe and Asia Programs, IFES
“Reflections on the Orange Revolution: Public Opinion and Attitudes in Ukraine” October 19, 2005
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Nikolay Petrov, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"Russia's Political Development through the Lense of Beslan" October 14, 2005
Russian and Eurasian Studies Program and the Washington Group. Speakers: David Kramer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia
Taras Kuzio, Visiting Professor, George Washington University, Ukraine Analyst
"After the Orange Revolution: Current U.S. policy towards Ukraine" October 5, 2005
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
Speaker: Aleksandr Dugin, Russian political and strategic thinker
"Russia’s Role in the New Eurasia: A Geopolitical View" October 5, 2005
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Harvey Balzer, Professor, Georgetown University
“The Putin Thesis and Russian Energy Policy” September 21, 2005
Russia-Eurasia Forum. Brown bag lunch with Serhiy Kudelia, SAIS PhD Candidate, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
“Splitting the Orange Spoils: Ukraine's Post-Revolutionary Awakening” Lectures and Events 2004-2005 April 8, 2005
Speaker: Taras Kuzio, Visiting scholar, George Washington University
"Ukraine's New Security Policy since the Orange Revolution" February 24, 2005
International Law and Russian and Eurasian Studies Programs
Speaker: Sanford Saunders, Attorney, Greenberg Traurig LLP
"Taxes, Oil and the Russian Private Sector: Putin and the Khodorkovsky Case" March 9, 2005
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Harley Balzer, Georgetown University
Title: “Confronting the Global Economy: Russia and China Compared” February 23, 2005
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Eugene Rumer, Senior Fellow, National Defense University
Title: "Russian Foreign Policy under Putin: Where Is Moscow Headed?" February 9, 2005
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Nikolai Petrov, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: “The Siloviki: Russia's Agencies of Coercion in Ideology and Practice" November 17, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Anatol Lieven, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: “Nightmare in the Caucasus: The Chechen Wars” November 12, 2004
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Gregory Gleason, University of New Mexico
Title: “The Politics of Integration in Eurasia” October 27, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Fiona Hill, Brookings Institution
Title: “Eurasia on the Move: Regional Implications of Mass Labor Migration” October 8, 2004
Eurasian Security Project
Speakers: John Dunlop, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, and Peter Reddaway, George Washington University
Title: “‘Storm in Moscow’: A Plan of the Yeltsin ‘Family’ to Destabilize Russia” October 6, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Lilia Shevtsova, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: “Putin’s Russia After Beslan” September 22, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Serhiy Kudelia, SAIS, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Title: “Europe's Undecided Borderland: Will the Presidential Election Change Ukraine?” Lectures and Events 2003-2004 April 21, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Sally Stoecker, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, American University
Title: “Criminal Entrepreneurship in Russia: The Case of Human Trafficking” April 13, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Alexei Bogaturov, Brookings Institution
Title: “Russian-American Relations under Putin” March 24, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Murray Feshbach, Woodrow Wilson Center
Title: “The Health and Population Crises in Russia” March 3, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Robert Orttung, American University
Title: “Business and Politics in Russia: Where Are Russia’s Business Associations?” February 18, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: David Satter, SAIS
Title: “The Rise of the Russian Criminal State” February 4, 2004
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Marc Howard, Georgetown University
Title: “The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe” November 5, 2003
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speakers: Sarah Mendelson, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Ted Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “Russian Attitudes towards Democracy and Human Rights” October 22, 2003
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Celeste Wallander, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Title: “Alternative Futures for NATO and the Implications for Russia” October 8, 2003
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: John Parker, U.S. Department of State
Title: “Russian-Iranian Relations Under Putin”. September 24, 2003
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Anatol Lieven, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: “Nagging, Hectoring, Badgering, Obsessive: US approaches to Russia over the Past Decade and the Lessons for the War against Terrorism”. Lectures and Events 2002-2003 September 20, 2002
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Harley Balzer, Georgetown University
Title: "Managed Pluralism: Politics in Putin’s Petro-State" October 11, 2002
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Stuart Goldman, Congressional Research Service
Title: "Russian National Security Policy after September 11, 2001 October 25, 2002
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Lena Jonson, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Title: "Russia and Tajikistan in a New Regional Context: Post–September 11, 2001" November 15, 2002
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Sergei Troush, Russian Academy of Sciences
Title: "Russia, Central Asia, and China: The Recent Dynamics of Energy Diplomacy in the Wake of September 11" February 12, 2003
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Thomas Graham, National Security Council
Title: "Can the US and Russia Be Strategic Partners?" February 24, 2003
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Dmitri Trenin, Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: "Possibilities and Pitfalls for U.S.-Russian Security Collaboration" Lectures and Events 2001-2002 Jan. 29, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Newspaper Seminar
Speaker: Marsha McGraw Olive, Senior Vice President, Eurasia Foundation
Title: "Working with Eurasia" Feb 1, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Anders Aslund, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: "Can Russia's Economic Boom Last?" Feb. 8, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Michael McFaul, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: "Russia's 1999-2000 Electoral Cycle: Implications for Democracy" Feb. 12, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Newspaper Seminar
Speaker: Chris Kushlis, US Treasury Department
Title: "Life after SAIS: Thoughts About a Career in Eurasian Affairs" Feb. 14, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Newspaper Seminar
Speaker: Armands Gutmanis, SAIS Visiting Scholar, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
Title: "New Europe, Old Frontiers? The Baltics Reach Out to Russia" Feb. 15, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Thomas Graham, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: "The Shifting Balance of Power in Russian Domestic Politics" Feb. 19, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Newspaper Seminar
Speaker: Evelin Lehis, World Bank
Title: "Life after SAIS: Careers in International Financial Institutions" Mar. 1, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Matt Bivens, former editor, Moscow Times
Title: "Do Democratic Freedoms Have a Future in Russia?" Mar. 2, 2001
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Sherman Garnett, Dean, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Title: "Beyond Denuclearization: Why Should Ukraine Matter?" Mar. 6, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Borys Tarasyuk, Former Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1998-2000
Title: "Ukraine: Challenges and Prospects" Mar. 8, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Murray Feshbach, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Title: "Policy Implications of the Demographic and Health Crises in Russia" Mar. 29, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Stephen Holmes, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: "Politics and Law in Putin's Russia" April 6, 2001
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Mary C. FitzGerald, Hudson Institute
Title: Russian Military Policy and International Objectives: Interim Strategies and Plans for Long-Term Systemic Change April 12, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: William E. Odom, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Ret.), Senior Fellow and Director, National Security Studies, Hudson Institute
Title: "The Politics of Russian Military Reform" Oct. 4, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Wayne Limberg, Chief, Russian Foreign Policy Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State
Title: "A Defining Moment: US-Russian Relations in the Wake of September 11" Oct. 12, 2001
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: James Clay Moltz, Director, NIS Nonproliferation Program, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Title: "Russian Nuclear Regionalism: Controlling Fissile and Radioactive Materials in Troubled Times" Oct.18, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum and Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Speaker: Martha Olcott, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Title: "The New Geopolitics of Central Asia" Oct. 26, 2001
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Oles Smolansky, Professor, Lehigh University
Title: "Ukraine and Russia: A Marriage of Inconvenience" Nov. 8, 2001
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Speaker: Angela Stent, Georgetown University
Title: "Can Russia Become a European Power?" Feb. 22, 2002
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Tom Bjorkman, Senior Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
Title: “Measuring the Pulse of Democratic Idea in Russia” Mar. 29, 2002
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: Dmitri Glinski-Vassiliev, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow, Russia
Title: “Russia and Its Muslims: The Politics of Identity at the International-Domestic Frontier” April 19, 2002
Eurasian Security Project
Speaker: David Satter, The Hudson Institute
Title: “The Shadow of Ryazan: Who Was Behind the Strange Russian Apartment Bombings in September, 1999?"
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